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WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING; I.R.S. Seeks Professors

College professors looking for a summer job may soon be able to find one at their local Internal Revenue Service office. Commissioner Lawrence B. Gibbs says the agency is seriously thinking about hiring some seasoned, seasonal talent from the professorial ranks to help with training and audits.

The agency's professional staff is now drawn almost exclusively from college graduating classes. But with the I.R.S. workload growing, Mr. Gibbs figures that hiring accounting professors is a good way to bring extra experience and knowledge to the agency's staff, even if only on a temporary basis.

Until a decade or so ago, Mr. Gibbs said, the I.R.S. regularly recruited college professors but the practice stopped because of budget cutbacks. With the aid of new funds to enlarge the workforce over the next few years, Mr. Gibbs hopes to have a few college professors back on board at district I.R.S. offices by this summer and a larger group hired for the summer of 1988.

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A version of this article appears in print on May 13, 1987, on Page B00012 of the National edition with the headline: WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING; I.R.S. Seeks Professors. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe